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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 06 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Glued to The Weather Channel While the World Burns By Paul Rogat Loeb

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-loeb/glued-to-the-weather-chan_b_871832.html Following the weather is beginning to feel like revisiting the Biblical plagues. Tornadoes rip through Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma—even Massachusetts. A million acres burn in Texas wildfires. The Army Corps...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 05 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Norman Solomon in Grassroots Run for Congress Asks for Help

Norman Solomon — the North Bay political activist who has been a leader of the region’s Green New Deal commission and the national Healthcare Not Warfare campaign — announced on Wednesday (April 13) that he has filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress. He said...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 05 6th, 2011 | No Comments

The Killing of Bin Laden and the Threat of Al Qaeda

Stephen Zunes Professor of Politics and Chair of Mid-Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco FROM Stephen Zunes The killing of Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden is not likely to have a profound impact one way or the other in the struggle against the terrorist organization...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 04 28th, 2011 | No Comments

It’s Time to Close California’s Nuclear Power Plants By Norman Solomon

The facts all point to this “inconvenient truth” -- the time has come to shut down California’s two nuclear power plants as part of a swift transition to an energy policy focused on clean and green renewable sources and conservation. The Diablo Canyon plant near San Luis Obispo and...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 04 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Three Cups of a Flawed Hero: The Limits of Greg Mortenson’s Model of Change by Paul Loeb

It’s tempting to expect perfection from those we admire, but we romanticize lone heroes at our peril. A few years before one-time supporter Jon Krakauer challenged the truthfulness of Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, a professor asked me my thoughts on using the book as a reading for first-year...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 04 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Talking Revolution: The New Elderly Generation Can Provide the Spark for an American Rising by Dave Lindorf

Published on Monday, April 25, 2011 by This Can’t Be Happening I am 62 and have just reached the age where I could apply for Social Security retirement benefits. Of course, I’d be crazy to do that and collect some $700 a month for the rest of my life, when I could keep working and wait...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 04 12th, 2011 | No Comments

TAX THE RICH! by David Rovics on tour in Norway 4/12

Hi folks, My latest iPhone broadside… My two cents on the current budget debate in Congress — TAX THE RICH! www.youtube.com/user/drovics?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/HhiqLLMo618 Lyric below. David Tax the Rich Five hundred or so rich men in the Congress Are engaged in some most serious debate Along...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 03 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Intervention in Libya: Is It Really the Only Option? 3/28 by: Stephen Zunes, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Monday 28 March 2011 by: Stephen Zunes, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed During a government-led press tour, a man surveys damage to a Libyan military missiles warehouse, which was destroyed in an allied bombing run near the port in Tripoli, Libya, on March 22, 2011. (Photo: Moises Saman / The New York...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 03 16th, 2011 | No Comments

America Blows It on Bahrain by Stephen Zunes 3/2

The Obama administration’s continued support of the autocratic monarchy in Bahrain, in the face of massive pro-democracy demonstrators, once again puts the United States behind the curve of the new political realities in the Middle East. For more than two weeks, a nonviolent sit-in and encampment...
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Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 03 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Nuclear Power Madness by Norman Solomon 3/15

Like every other president since the 1940s, Barack Obama has promoted nuclear power. Now, with reactors melting down in Japan, the official stance is more disconnected from reality than ever. Political elites are still clinging to the oxymoron of “safe nuclear power.” It’s up to us —...
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